Anything Works, As Long As You Write

I Saw The Fall Of Troy! World War Five! I Was Pushing Boxes At The Boston Tea Party! Now I'm Gonna Die In A Dungeon.... [disgustedly] In Cardiff!

I Love Having Debates With People When They Are Debates But Some People, You Just Can't. Some People Shouldn't Be Given The Oxygen.

Writing Isn't Just A Job That Stops At Six Thirty... It's A Mad, Sexy, Sad, Scary, Ruthless, Joyful, And Utterly, Utterly Personal Thing. There's Not The Writer And Then Me; There's Just Me. All Of My Life Connects To The Writing. All Of It.

...the Very Word 'fiction' Implies Another World, Literally A Different Place, Whereas No One Claims That A Dedicated Sportsman Is Escaping His Life, Or A Chef Or A Nurse. But The Poor Writer - The Sci-fi One Especially - Is Seen As Running Away. Bollocks. This Is Real, For Me, And It's Tough, It's Fun, It's Practical, And It's Very, Very Important.

Fun, That's The Word I Keep On Using. That's The Word I Worry About When Other Writer's Scripts Get Too Dark. Optimistic. Fun. And To Be Optimistic And Have Fun There's Got To Be A Darkness There. I Think That's A Very British Attitude.